Cost of living isn't a standardized, hard-and-fast mathematical concept. Looking into how it's defined and applied to specific places reveals less about empirical economic differences and more about the nuanced and fluid ways in which people make decisions about money and opportunity and lifestyle.

Five years after WCIJ documented serious problems with the state’s GPS monitoring program — false alerts that have landed offenders in jail, disrupting family lives and causing them to lose jobs — inefficiencies and inaccuracies with the system remain.

Last fall the City of De Pere’s Common Council approved an anti-discrimination ordinance that would protect transgender people from being fired or denied access to housing. But its future is now in question.

Northern Wisconsin leaders say residents have yet to see the expansion of broadband service to rural areas of Douglas County and the City of Superior. CenturyLink is among providers AT&T and Frontier that received $572 million in federal subsidies under the Connect America Fund through the Federal Communications Commission. The...

Young people have been vocal throughout the country following the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School Shooting in Parkland, Florida on February 14. Since then, we have seen protests crop up across the country and students challenge lawmakers and companies alike. We speak with David S. Meyer, Professor of Sociology at the...

More than 150 high school students from Milwaukee and Racine walked out of their classes Monday. They were demanding House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Janesville, allow a vote on legislation to prevent deportation of people brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

Provosts for the University of Wisconsin-Superior decided last fall to cut 24 majors and minors, as well as one graduate-level program. Many students were outraged by the move and faculty say they were not consulted during the decision making process. Now, new emails obtained by the American Federation of Teachers...

Wisconsin Voices For Recovering is moving forward with a new program that trains people who have experienced addiction and recovery, either through themselves or others, to help others who are experiencing addiction. The program has just received a new grant of $1.4 million from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services...

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found Wisconsin’s rate of drug and opioid deaths exceeds the national average. One Wisconsin organization is looking to combat that through recovery coaches who have experienced addiction themselves.

Some elements of Dodd-Frank could be repealed under a new bill in the United States Senate. In 2010, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The legislation put a series of regulations and safeguards in place to avoid another financial crisis similar to the Great Recession...

Roughly four out of five Wisconsin voters favor universal background checks for gun purchases, according to the latest Marquette University Law School poll. A total of 81 percent of voters said they supported background checks on private gun sales and at gun shows. Just 16 percent opposed them.